I gather that when it comes to rooting an Android device,
one needs a separate machine (e.g. a desktop computer) to carry out the rooting steps from;
the details of the procedure depend strongly on ...

I had a old (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.2.2 lying around in a drawer so I activated it for my son. To my surprise, the built-in emoji keyboard (and any third-party keyboard/emoji ...

Auto-capitalisation, that turns letter case to upper, but stops actual word sliding, when I start sliding from Shift key instead of z or a, simply drives me crazy.
Is there any way to disable it, so ...

I have a Galaxy Nexus GSM, and when the battery gets low, it doesn't ever do the normal "Powering off" dialog. This also happens at every battery level, it happened at 75 and 50% as well. The phone ...

I have first Nexus (Galaxy Nexus i9250) with Android 4.3 on-board. I've been making screenshots of the screens, I'm seeing, for as long, as I have this phone (nearly three years) and there were always ...

i got issues with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus S i9023. It's new mobile. After 2 months i was msg's with my friends,then my phone just restart and its was fine for 1 min. then it turn off. And when i try ...

I have a GalaxyNexus running Android 4.2.2
I just want to quickly backup some data files to my PC. I'm pretty sure I've done this many times before, but I guess not on this phone.
I have the Android ...

I have a Galaxy Nexus "yakju" model and I want to replace the stock Android with CyanogenMod, but I have found only this page which talks about the "maguro". After some research it looks like it will ...

Model: GSM Galaxy Nexus I9250 Takju Maguro
ROM: CyanogenMod 11 Kitkat
Recovery: Clock Mod
OS: Android 4.4
Basically, my phone has been working fine for the last 2 years. I had only one issue of phone ...

I turned off my wifi connection and noticed a heavy impact on my battery life. In a few hours without any usage, it dropped more than the whole day before.
See the drop at end while wifi (WLAN) was ...

I have a Galaxy Nexus (maguro) and some time back I got an OTA udpate after I installed Cyanogenmod on on the phone using the installer. I'm not sure which 'M' release this OTA update is. All it says ...

I discovered that the official Samsung car charger is rated for 700mA, but my stock wall charger has 1000mA. Is that normal? If I buy the 700mA charger, there's the risk that with the navigator on, ...

I've got a rooted Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean).
Since a week I can't find the contacts app. Seems like it disappeared.
It is NOT disabled (I've already checked).
I also tried ...

I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and it's having problems getting and keeping the GPS signal. It has been getting worse over time. It was just taking 10+ minutes to get a lock and recently it has been ...

Currently galaxy nexus fits my image for all 5 of my screens, but I want my image to fill the whole screen, on every screen, so when u scroll between screens its the same background, and its the full ...

I am running Cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
by the beginning of March 2014, Cyanogenmod released V11 Snapshot M4.
As far as I know, I am still running Snapshot M3, which I freshly installed ...

my gnex (maguro) started rebooting frequently (like every 30 seconds). I hope is not an hardware fault and now I'm trying to restore a factory image so I can rule out any custom rom-derived problems.
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So I was recently messing around with my Galaxy Nexus and I attempted to wipe everything but accidentally wiped the OS. I tried adb'ing a ROM to the device but it was getting halted at around 5MB (the ...

I have a Galaxy Nexus with the stock firmware, it's a device that has been powered off for a long time. Currently I can't update any existing apps nor can I install new ones. I have tried with Chrome, ...

I had a Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.2.1 and it broke. My insurance replaced it, so I have a new Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.2. The new phone doesn't show that any system updates are available. ...